Comment 1 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Aug 2, 2008

Comment 2 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Aug 4, 2008

Basically it looks like we will need a way to update the 
gitosis-admin repository from the web interface. Doing the push will 
run the hooks to update the access rights.

Other alternative, create a clone of gitosis with a database 
backend. But that would require quite some work (and quite some 
security checks too).

Comment 3 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Nov 24, 2008

Comment 4 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Dec 2, 2008

Comment 5 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Dec 2, 2008

I think the problem can be solved with a local checkout of the 
gitosis-admin repository on the server.

Note: We need to allow users to provide their public SSH key.

Comment 6 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Dec 4, 2008

Ok, I did some tests and found that basically, we cannot do live 
changes on the git repositories because we need to do them with the 
`git` user. 

So, the way to go is to create objects in the queue when we perform 
operations and then let a cron job running under the `git` id, 
perform the update of the gitosis-admin checkout and push the 
updated version. 

We already have the queue system in Pluf:
http://projects.ceondo.com/p/pluf/source/tree/master/src/Pluf/Queue.p
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so, it is rather easy to create the plugin that will simply push the 
changes in the queue, the real work will be the cron job that will 
perform the changes.

Comment 7 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Dec 7, 2008

Again, again, I spent a while looking at the gitosis internals, the 
code is really nice. What is even nicer, is that it will be rather 
easy to use it as a basis to directly hook into the indefero 
database for identification.

I will work on that starting 15th of December, as this week I have 
family at home.

Comment 8 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Dec 14, 2008

So, I started to work on this one. It will take some days to 
complete as it is not an easy task.

Comment 9 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Jan 13, 2009

I stupidly lost my work before Christmas holidays, so I am now 
working again on it.

Comment 10 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Jan 14, 2009

Ok, found that the best way is to write a tool from scratch based on 
the good practices of gitosis. This will allow to have smooth 
integration with the rights framework of InDefero.

Comment 11 by Loïc d'Anterroches, Jan 14, 2009

I have the access control done in commit 00f3b08 (still requires 
testing). Now I need to add the ability for a user to upload his SSH 
key.